Family-friendly wrestling on Saturday

East Coast Professional Wrestling is coming to East Stroudsburg for a family-friendly event on Saturday. This is the first Pocono Mountain event for the East Coast group, and they hope to make it a regular stop.

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By MELANIE VANDERVEER

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By MELANIE VANDERVEER

Posted Feb. 8, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By MELANIE VANDERVEER
Posted Feb. 8, 2013 at 12:01 AM

IF YOU GO

East Coast Professional Wrestling WHEN: Saturday; doors open at 6:30 p.m., bell at 7:15 p.m.

WHERE: Big Wheel Skating Center, 3226 N. Fifth St., East Stroudsburg

COST: Fron...

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IF YOU GO

East Coast Professional Wrestling

WHEN: Saturday; doors open at 6:30 p.m., bell at 7:15 p.m.

WHERE: Big Wheel Skating Center, 3226 N. Fifth St., East Stroudsburg

COST: Front row, $12; general admission, $10; children under 5, free

INFORMATION: 973-402-9599, ecpw1.com

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East Coast Professional Wrestling is coming to East Stroudsburg for a family-friendly event on Saturday. This is the first Pocono Mountain event for the East Coast group, and they hope to make it a regular stop.

"There will be about nine matches," said Dave Goodman, promoter and wrestler. "The main event is a tag-team hardcore match featuring myself — The Goods — and Brandon Alpha going up against Little Daddy C and Anarchy."

Goodman has been wrestling professionally since 2010. ECPW travels around Pennsylvania and New York for matches, and hopes for more in New Jersey and Connecticut in the future.

Alpha has been wrestling professionally for two years. He's wanted to be a professional wrestler since childhood.

"Growing up in North Carolina, me and my friends got together and trained. When I moved to Pennsylvania, I tried to get trained but because of my diabetes, the doctor wouldn't clear me. Two years ago, I got cleared and began," he said. "We hope to make the Poconos a permanent area for us. A lot of people enjoy wrestling, and we want to build up the area to be a wrestling area."

"People can expect family-friendly fun, excitement, entertainment, story lines and emotions. It's a real fun show and something to do," Alpha said. "We invite everybody out to come and enjoy the show."

For anyone who isn't familiar with what tag-team hardcore wrestling is, it's a bit different than your typical wrestling match.

"Tag-team hardcore means you throw out the rules of a normal wrestling match," Alpha said. "You can use weapons, and there are no disqualifications."